On 6 Oct 2002, Davide Venturelli wrote:
> if my node forwards a packet that has Hops-To-Live 25 (or the maximum > possible HTL) am I sure that i'm the first node contacted by the sender > (and I now who is the sender)? > I guess yes. > Thanks in advance for the answers. No, because nodes are free to alter HTL arbitrarily. This is one of the strengths of freenet. Since it's impossible to prevent hostile nodes from messing with HTL, freenet doesn't call this an attack. Instead, it documents it as a permissible part of the protocol, making proofs of identity much more difficult. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
